Does your department need support in tackling student survey results?

Economics Network Student Focus Group scheme 2010

The Economics Network is pleased to announce its Student Focus Group scheme. From March 2010 to July 2010 the Network can provide up to 10 student focus groups free of charge to departments. These will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and the groups will be fully confidential to the department.

Background

In 2009-2010 the Economics Network will have completed its fifth national biennial survey of economics students, which looks in depth at the issues that economics students find in learning and assessment. This survey complements the National Student Survey, an annual survey for all disciplines since 2005.

In order to help departments tackle issues highlighted by such surveys, the Economics Network is pleased to announce its Student Focus Group scheme 2010, running from March to July. The Network can provide up to 10 departmental student focus groups free of charge to departments.

The focus groups

The groups will involve up to 15 students, drawn from a range of students within your department. They will be run by one of our independent evaluators who will return a confidential report to your department for use in planning. Further advice and support following the report may be available on request.

How to apply

The deadline for requests for 2009/10 has now passed. Please contact the Network to express interest in using the scheme in future.